Contents

Pacific News-Review 1 Five New Ships on Pacific Run ... 2 South Seas Travellers 3 Is There to be War in the Pacific? 5 Extraordinary Political Events in Tahiti 6 Better Copra Outlook 7 Death of Mr. Ivan Nelson 7 Cocoa and Coffee Prices Rise 8 Trade Union Plan for N. Guinea . . 8 "Bounty” Anchor for NZ Museum .. 9 New Guinea’s Mystery Murder ... 9 Tropicalities 13 Roll of Honour 15 Where Suva Cools Off 17 No Ships for Fiji Sugar 19 Six Natives Killed in NG Raid ... 19 Sudden Death of Prince Tugi. of Tonga 20 Why Not a Strike of Copra-Growers? 22 Future of Rabaul 24 Islands Men Escape from Greece, 25, 44 The Unhappy Situation of Japan .. 26 How Britain & USA Stand Behind China 27 Air Bases Guard Australia 29 New Caledonia Carries On 30 Letter to the Editor (Cartoon) ... 31

Polynesians Govern Themselves ... 32 Enemy Subjects Trapped in Far East 33 Territories Men in the AIF 34 “Cohabitation” in the Cook Is 35 New Carpenter Copra Mill in Canada 36 “Faith in Australia” Returns to TNG 38 Fish-Canning as New Fiji Industry 39 Memories of “Queen Emma” ... 39 Copra Used as Pigs’ Food in NZ .. 40 Steel Guitars for Two—A Musical Duel in Rarotonga 41 Cost of a Rubber Estate 42 Death of Mr. F. C. Clapcott (Fiji) .. 45 War Preparations in the Philippines 46 Growth of Trans-Pacific Airmails .. 47 Rarotonga’s Grand Old Man ... 48 Papuan News 48 A Section for Islands Women ... 51 Social Changes in N. Caledonia .. 53 Mining Reports 54 Short Wave Radio Programmes ... 57 Territories Minister Visits Papua & New Guinea 58, 64 Copra & Rubber Prices 60 Exchange Rates 61 Islands Produce Quotations 62 Papua’s Outmoded Divorce Law .. 64